The Facebook Federalist: Restoring the Structures of Limited Government -Michael Farris Under the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, treaties are part of the Supreme Law of the land. The text explicitly says that treaties are superior to inconsistent state laws and state constitutions. Why in the world did the Founders include such a provision? It’s pretty simple. Treaties were understood to deal exclusively with the realm of international relations. Treaties established rules for how nations treated other nations. And that was it. The Founders wanted to give exclusive authority to Congress and the President to control international relations. Accordingly, they believed that state law should not intrude on legitimate international relations. However, after World War II the internationalist community began to pursue a framework for international law that imposed rules that every nation would be bound to implement in its own domestic law. Treaties like the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women contain many dangerous, even outrageous rules. But it is the fundamental premise of these treaties that is by far the most unacceptable. The international community wants to govern our lives. I have led successful fights to stop a number of UN treaties in the US Senate. Bob Dole and John Kerry, among others, have personally attacked me because of my efforts against using international law for our domestic policy. We need a clear constitutional rule that ends this problem once and for all. Such a rule is easy to write. We can amend the Supremacy Clause so that no treaty can ever be adopted to control U.S. domestic law. We can ensure that only Americans can make the law for America. But to do so, we must use the Convention of States mechanism since Washington DC will never agree to protect our sovereignty. Join us. Like and share this post. But more importantly, join our efforts...
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 02:54:54 +0000
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